Excellent | Worth a Detour
Cafe 209
Review by: Michael Stern
In this soul-food, square-meals temple on Augusta’s Broad Street, fried chicken is the main attraction. One can order this chicken by the piece, so it is possible to have just a piece or two along with a whole lot of 209’s excellent side dishes. The list of nearly two dozen includes Thursday-only broccoli casserole and cornbread dressing, pungent turnip greens, supersweet fried corn, piquant rutabagas, and Friday-only cole slaw and potato salad (to accompany catfish or flounder). Broccoli casserole is luxury incarnate — really more a cheese and rice casserole with just enough broccoli mixed in for it to qualify as a vegetable. Cornbread dressing, smothered with gravy and accompanied by cranberry sauce, could almost be a meal unto itself … although I can’t imagine a better companion for pork chops or Wednesday-only meat loaf.
It’s all good, the chicken even better than that; however dessert is a let-down: gummy peach cobbler, banana pudding with synthetic flavor.
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Price | $ |
Seasons | All |
Meals Served | Lunch |
Credit Cards Accepted | Yes |
Alcohol Served | No |
Outdoor Seating | No |
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